Dovecot won’t reload config

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I want to run imaps on a port other than 993.

I changed this in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf and beforehand, backed up the original copy as /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf.bak. I did everything from 

# service dovecot restart
# service dovecot stop
# service dovecot start
# doveadm reload
# doveadm restart

and even a complete server reboot.

Still, doveconf | grep 993 reports port = 993 in the output, while the port's been changed in the config file.

Note I'm also running roundcube and postfix, and connected my email account to the gmail app through SSL as well on port 993. I'm also not sure if I need to change any other configs to work with dovecot or not, other than my email settings on my phone for gmail app.

EDIT it turned out conf.d wasn't included….

Best Answer

Are you running with SELINUX enabled? If so, selinux may block dovecot from binding to another port and, after that, it re-bind on the default port (993).

Try to temporarily disable selinux with setenforce 0 and to restart dovecot. Does that change anything?

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